The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 29, No. 9 (April 24, 1940)

AKRON EDITION
PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
Vol. 29 AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 No. 9
MORE LIBERAL
VACATION PLAN
IS ANNOUNCED
Vacations Granted In
Factory After Two Years
Service, with Two Weeks
After Five
Practically everybody in
l ~oodyear will go on vacation
thi · year.
Liberalization of the vaca­tion
plan to give one week's
yacation to everyone on piece
mwk or hourly rating who
ha had two years continuous
sen ·ice up to Jan . 1, 1940,
and two weeks to those hav­ing
five years continuous service
by then was announced by the
tompany last week.
The previous r ule dating back
almost a qua rte r of a century to
l 916 when ,Goodyear rather star·
tied t he country by extending
vaca tions to factory men, r equired
five years continuous service to
qualify for one wee k 's vacation
and ten yea rs to earn two weeks.
Under the new plan more than
flOOO houri.'· employees will get
rn ca tions t his ,·ear and all but 350
of those will ge t two weeks.
The new program will be spe·
(' ial lv welcome to those me11 who
we re laid off during the depres·
sion and h an~ been back now long
enough to qu alify for vacations
unrlcr t his new plan.
'l'he Girls Travel Club is spon·
so ri ng the pla.v "Robin Hood"
!?inn b y t he ·w eathervane Thea·
ter playe rs next Tuesday night.
Newport News and Wash­ington
Awalt Arrival of
Goodyear Visitors
Reservations are being made at
a gratifying rate at Employees
Activities headquarte rs for the
Goodyear excurs ion to the national
capital and Colonial Virginia. In·
dications point to a large delega·
tion boarding t he B. & 0 . speci al
tmin at 6::?0 o'clock Friday morn·
ing, May 17, according to Fred
Colle.v, who is l1eadi ng the excur·
sio n.
This trip has been designed at
very low cost, total expense only
$32.55 per pe rson. Th is includes
round trip railroad fare , steamship
round trip Washington to Norfolk,
Va., stateroom on b oa t for two
nigh t s, al 1 mea Is, sight-seeing buses
and transfers. Remember, the
$32.55 includes a ll meals from the
time the train leaves Ma.v 17 up to
the time the train pulls into Akron
on the morning of May 20.
Spar·e doesn't permit listing all
that the excursionists will see, but
he re a re sorne of the importa nt
points:
Pi cturesq ue section follow iniz- Po·
tomac river valley to H a r per's Ferr.\·,
scene of the famous Jol111 Brown r ui<l,
Army Wnr College. Fort Washin g·
ton, and ~fount Vernon-dewed from
the steamer passing down the hi s to ric
Potomac ri \•er.
Nrn·nl huse nt Nol'folk. H am pt on
Roads, Newpor t News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company, larges t of its
kind in the wo rl d.
Tour of ancient W ill ia m s bur~. Va.
with vi s its lo Governor's Palace,
Rale igh T u'"e rn . Colonial Capitol, Bru·
[Turn t o P age 3]
George Does It Wrong!
By Tom McEldowney
P resident, Goodyear State Bank
Lon and George are two
mighty fine f ellows.
They work at Goodyear
and are classed as salaried
personnel- that is, each gets
his salary twice a month.
Ever since 1934 Lon has
had a checking account at
Goodyear bank.
George neve r seems to get
around to opening such an ac·
count although he knows he
should.
When payday comes, Lon's
envelope contains a stub
showing that his sn la ry has
a utomatically b een deposited
to the credit of his checking
a cc o u n t . He enters the
amount in his check book,
pays his bills by check
ther eby getting an iron clad
receipt for such payment, car·
ries only what cash he needs
on his person and saves him·
self a lot of time and bother.
In other words, LON DOES
IT THE EASY WAY.
George, on the other hand,
carries his check around in
his pocket until he finds the
time and the place to have it
cashed . Then he or the
Missus wastes a lot of spare
time paddling over town to
pay his bills in cash. He runs
the chance of losing his b ank·
roll and he has to fuss with
a lot of receipts in order to
protect himself against pay·
ing his bills twice. And at
the end of the month, George
has only a vague idea of
where all of his money has
go ne. Obviously, GEORGE
DOES IT THE HARD WAY.
Now if George would only
ca11 the bank or the payroll
department at the plant, he
cou ld immediately have the
con ven ien t, prudent arrange·
ment that Lon enjo_vs.
And if you a re i11 George's
plight, you can do tho same.
Just call the bank or t he
payroll department and you r
salarv check will be handled
without hazard or ineonven­ien
e.
I
Here are Evelyn Nelson, Ruth Fret z, Hazel Luff and Alice Miner,
photographed on deck at a previous Goodyear steamship outing. You
can see by' their f aces that a good time can be had .
Went To Sea At 12,He'll Quit Work At 77
But It'll Be Hard To Stay In Bed After 5
Hoskins Will Have Company
In Fellow Englishman, Martin,
Who Also Goes On Pension
John Hoskins, store room, born
in England, went to sea as a cabin
boy at 12, has been working ever
since. Now at 77 he's retiring on
pension, June 1, will take life easy,
k eeping "bachelor's hall " as he
terms it at his home in Ellet, visit·
ing around with his eight children
and his 18 grandchildren.
John J . Martin, Janitor Ser vice,
will leave the same day. Another
Englishman, be didn't start work·
ing ti ll he was 14 and being 74 has
0 11 ly been wo1·king for 60 years.
''Be kind of tough not to get
up in the morning,'' it was sug·
gested.
"I'll probably get up just t he
sa me,'' said John Hoskin s. ''I 've
been getting up at a round 4 :30 all
my life-except Sundays, then I
sleep in till 6-and it's too late to
change now. I've been late just
fo ur times in my 20 years with
Goodyear-for a total of 30 min·
utes . I've never driven a car.
When I first went out there, I used
to swing on the baggage car a nd
ride in , but for the last seven years
I've been coming in with my
neighbor, Wayne Rowolls of the
pit. J ring in at 5:30-don 't vary
more than three min utes. Wayne
is a lways punctual.''
'' T ran 't remember being late
either, '' said John Ma1·tin, who
John Hoskins
has been here ~5 years,'' but don't
put that in the paper. Somebody
might check up on me."
John Hoskins is a Cornishman,
born near L ands End on the south
coast of England.
"That's whern the Pirates of
P en za nce held out,'' suggested
John fartin.
"Ye~ hut J was11 't one of
them," retorted Joh n Hoskins.
[Turn to P age 3]
Society Plans to Develop
Top Rating Musical
Organization
Plans to· expand Goodyear
Choristers into a big-time or­ganization,
of perhaps 300
members, Goodyearites and
families, t o give popular p r o­grams
in Akron and out of
town, will be launched at an
organization meet ing and
opening rehearsal a week
from tonight at Goodyear
theater at 7 :30.
Plans have been extensively dis·
cussed during the past few weeks,
and the idea enthusiastically re·
ceived. Tom Clayton will p reside
at the opening meeting. Fred
Shaw has pledged the cooperation
of the Foremen's Club, Fred Col·
ley says the Employes' Activities
Committee will more than welcome
the new members, and Ernie Chat·
t erfi eld, long active in this group
when he wasn't out playing soccer,
is immensely pleased over the
whole thing.
Verne Schille r,
Inter -Pla ut, who
'ms t he fir st di·
r e r t o r of the
Chori ste rs w Ii e n
it was orga nized
eight years ago,
will a t as direc·
tor. Since then
he has built up
the Summit Male
Chorus and di· Verne Schiller
i·ects a c hur ch
choir downtown, but he's going to
give p lenty of time to the new
group.
[Turn t o P age 3]
REGRET PASSING
OF L. C. ROCKHILL
Older factory men learned with
regret of the death Monday from
pneumonia of L. C. Rockhill, 56,
for man~ years
sales manager of
th e company.
C oming to
Goodyear in 1907,
'' Rox' ' was in
the thick of the
sales battle dur·
ing the period of
the com pany's
greatest growth,
left on the or·
ganization the
imprint of a keen L. C. Rockhill
mind and a feel·
ing of comradeship. He left Good·
year in 1928 to go to another
company, but retired in 1932 to
his farm near Congress Lake and
other business interests, had lived
quietly there sinre. Funeral serv·
ices will be held tomorrow after·
noon at 2 p. m. at Hartville. He
leaves a widow, two daughters
and a son.
Five Men From Super­vision,
One Silent in List
of Long Service Employes
. Hiring was pretty brisk in
the spring of 1915. 'l'he World
\Var was on, the tire business
\Yas still growin00 by leaps
and hounds, industry was hir­ing
all the men who came
a long.
And so 25 years later the
XXV service pin business re­fl
ects the earlier activity, with
11 service pins giv en out la st week
and J 2 the week befo1·c 1 IJri nging
t he totnl up to 10:3 , areo rding to
.\.l Cunnington 's figur s.
In the li st arc one Sil ent, one
girl, four men fron1 supervision,
nnd the second mc111b c• r of l\f::tl'hine
Design to get pins this 111011ih .
W. W. Heid
Big Bill Heid,
hipping Room ,
got his pin sepa­rntel~-
in ''Flip''
Fl ming 's offire,
so we ' 11 dispose
of him first. Born
in Kentu c k y,
working t he re on
the mil road fo r a
y e:u he landed
in the shipping
room when h e
rame h ere, first
accessories, then
tubes, then tires, became foreman
fa J920, has b een in supervis ion
through the succeeding years-is
now back at Plant I - has three
boys, one in Akron U, anoth er in
East High-likes to hunt and fish.
Machine cl esigner ::nvanled his
pin is Harold M. Brown, native of
Cuyahoga Falls, who took night
classes at Akron U and business
college, spent four yea1·s in ma·
chine design work, starting with
t he old Whitman-Eames company
- has four daughters, two of them
manied-still lives in the F alls­likes
. ports and music-a great
rooter for the Cleveland Indians­especially
in the early pa1't of the
season-a golfer who sometimes
hHs ' em out in the rough- made
a 9000-mile motor trip on his vaca·
tion last fn ll , taking in the Black
Hills, Grand Coul ee Dam, the red·
wood forests, Hoover Dam, the
P etrified Forest, the Painted Des­ert,
Cal'l sbad Caverns, didn't mi ss
a thing.
Ira Ziegler, supervisor in the
ca lender room, W"orlcl ·war vet­eran,
comes from Mifflinton, Pa.,
has spent practirally his entire
service in this department-the
last 20 years of it in upervision­served
with the 134th Field Ar·
tillery during the war-married,
has a daughte1·, Marian, in high
school-likes to htmt :mcl fish.
John Pascu, super visor in Me·
rliani cnl Goods Componn rling, is
a Ronmanian b,y birth, started in
t he old wash r oom, bC' rame nn h1 -
:pector the next year, hn . been on
upervision the la t c,·c11 yenrn­ambitious
he took r ln s~cs nt G. I.
U. for J 2 years to improve himself
- likes bas ball, fishi11i;:, football ,
1 ut likes to travel too, visit other
plants, see how other com1rnnies
nre doing- has two sons, one in
Hower 'rracle school, t he other in
Akron U- owns his home-belongs
to Masons, Grotto, Fo1·emen 's club.
Merton Brittain, supervisor in
'rruck Tires, was born in Akron,
started in ca rr:ving stock for Ed
Viers,-went on motorc:vcle t ires,
THE WINGFOOT CLAN.-PAGE 2
Front row, lef t to right-J ames Dawson, John P ascu, Howard Beabout. Middle row- Waitman
Deems, Mont Morehead, Edward McKnight. Back row-Thomas Nichols, Ira D. Ziegler, Alvin J . Brown,
Merton Brit t ain .
F r ont row, left to right- George Homrigshausen, Pearl Koontz, Frank Grah am. Middle row- P aul
Per sin g, Okey McQuain, George Lammlein, Glen Wood. Back row- Mont Jones, George Wonn, Liston
Mcintyre, H arold M. Brown.
berame in pector- on supe rvi sion
the last Jl Years- li kes to hunt
and fi sh- hoi)b.v is \\'OOd worki ug
:rn<l hont in g- has two daughters,
011e nt '\\" oo ·ter Colleg and Helen,
eight, at 110 1110.
Alvin J . Brown, stoc·k k eeper
Me(' Jrn 11i<·: il Goods, comes from
Whit e )[ill s, Pn.- has worked as
tire finisher, in:pector in the cal·
C'llller ronn1 , di spatr l1er- is an old
fnshioncrl, rock 1·ibbed Republican,
with '1 ll'i1lc n<·qtrnintance inside
the pln11t :rnd out- l1 as two son s,
n11e in ~«11001, the oi·her a sales­m:
in.
Amandus Haas, one of three
'IJrotlwrs in the ra10 ncler room
whose tot:i 1 scrvfrc is 66 years,
enmes from Jin sti ngs, Pa.-has
licrn in t hP same tl epnrtrnent con·
ti nu ousl,,·-l1ohb.v is r aisi11g t1·opi·
rnl flsh - 1.wns his home-hns three
11rtughtc rs- waR too bashful to
hnve his pictn l'e tak en.
Thomas Nichols, Rcr\"irc, is n
\Vest '\~ irgininn-a hn<·h elor- was
fi 1·r11w11 :111<1 e11giner1· in the south
lieforc r nrni ng here-was a tire
builder up to two ycn rs ago- likes
a 1 I ki 11 c1s of sports.
Rmiling James Dawson, tube
1·00111, 1' ome~ from La Crosse, \\isr ..
stnrtc<l in hc1·e lJefo rc he wns J6
i11 the shippini;: room, but six :vrnr.
lntcr wrnt into his p1·0scnt cl cpnrt·
111 c nt-hns tll'o bo~· s anrl a ghl, nll
in sr hool-'-oll'ns his home-is n
h:1 sehnll fan. usNl to play tl1
g·nn1 e.
Mont Mor ehead, llt>:1tc1·s, co ni c>'
from Rn 1·p11S\\' OOLl, \V. Vn., w:is :1
rni lroall fircm:111 :rncl wor1'ed in
a planing mill before •· onri ng l1 e re
- his Eervice has been C'nt i1·e ll· in
the pit- owns his hon1e-n ~l'irl ·
ower with 011e son, his hobby is
111otoring.
Waitman Deem, nlso in Hea ters
-nlso from W'est Virginia (Park­ersburg)-
wor11ed in the steel
mills in his home town- hi s en tire
se n ·ice in the same clepn1·trn ent
l1 m·c- own. his own home-has n
claughtcr who is graduating from
East High in June, also a boy of
15- likes to w01·k in th gn rcl en,
outside tl1e hunting season.
Howard Beabout, tuhe room,
r:ime up from East Live1·pool1
:tnited in the tube room at 19,
has ha cl nll his S<'I'Vi<"e there- own
his own home- has two girls, 19
nn<l 17, :ind a hoy 15,-raises
elrickens and fruit trees, likes box­ing
match es :ind fishing.
Eclward McKnight, sralcman in
n1cle Rubber-come. from H eb·
ron, ·w. Va., taught school a couple
of vears clown home-stnrtecl in
heTc cementing bands, spent t en
,·ca TS there :rncl several years in
tl1c mill room before goi·n'g ou hi ·
prrsent job seven years ago.
First Goodyear girl at Akron to
get a 25-ycm· pin in more than n
yr:ir is Pearl Koontz, Tube Room
:_l1 r1· " ·hole service lias b een in
that clcpnrtment, seaming tubes,
final in sprction, water testing,
LifcG11:ncls and now cc n1 cnting
valves-born in .Tolm~ to w n , Pn..,
tl1P yenr of t·l1e flood , Mrs. Koontz,
n wiclo\\', has one mnr riecl daugh ­ter,
two g-r :111clr hil<lr<>n.
George Wonn, lencl press opern-
1 or i11 the ll o~e Ronlll, Mechanical
Goods, is 0110 of the fi rnt '.!5 -,,·cn r
men in some 1 i111c to have been
born in Akron- he work eel for
Goodl'irh seYcn years, two for the
East Ohio Gas Co.-rnme to Goocl­~
·e m· r tning heels- moved to the
hose r oom three ye:ns l:i te1·- aeted
as shift forrmm1 for SP \·ernl Years
- has three boYs nll marr.iecl ­owns
his o\\·n home- likes base·
.ball nlHl fishing, also moto1·ing,
drove 1'ln011gh l\{nine :i ncl New
lfnmpsh i1·c lnst :rem·.
8tcn rn tcnrlcr in the tn1rk tire
pit, George Lammlein is a Ken·
tnekinn, horn at LouisYill o- spent
t·C'n ~·car s h h\·ccn rni ll'O:Hling :incl
<·o nstrur ti on \\'Ork - w:is n t iTe
liuil<l er the fh·st ten ypnrs, t end ed
st eam the next fiftern - serviee un ­broken
- lias hYo sons, one at
noochear I. Ahr rnft, the othPr Ht
Clr11crnl- owns his (1\\·11 11ome on
Fifth nv.- GeoTge 's hohhy is hor·
tiC'nlture nncl he's Px1wrt nt it­hns
liis mn1 plant gro wi ng m1it at
home- sell plnnts to many people
i11 East Akron.
Father of nine r hilclrc11 , seven
g-irls nnd two boys rnnging from
'.!5 ~· ea1·s clown to a four-~• c nr old ,
.instl5· p1·oucl Glen Woocl started in
"'rnpping tires in J 91 J, work eel out
A Lima, Ohio bo.1·, C. J. Bassler
hnd had a few ach entures in his
27 years with the rompa.ny, as ex­port
auditor in Spain a nd Morocco,
service at the Zeppelin dock, at
Gadsde n, Hlld for the last two
years in Sweden as secretary­trcasure1
·, but nothing quite to
mnt<·h his t rip back from Norrkop·
ping last wf'ek.
People in Sweden had almost
momcntadly expected to be drawn
into the ·world '\Var, but i·emote
Nor way, f rom where lie sailed, go­ing
aboard nt Oslo, seemed safe.
Half wa.'' arross the ocean the
ship sai l ini cnrnfully, watching for
possible min es ::ind raiders learned
by rad io of the newest develop­ments.
a not.ire, rn -hirc rl the next y<>nr but
was l:ri•l off two ''<'a 1·s lnter­tried
it n t l1ird time nncl 111ncle it
stick- is a Squncl ron g-rncluate,
was n supe1·visor in gas mask de·
partmcnt clu1·i11g the wa r - has
hrC'n hui lcling- tru ck tires the last
l [i 1·c·ars- h ol'll in Pennsylvania
h e'~ n huntPr," bns<'ball fan, likes
to gn 1·cl cn.
Okey McQuain, Virginian, rail­rond
ed for a few vears down home
lwfore (·o ming li e re,-started in
t·hc rn le nrl er 1·oom1 has been in·
spe~tor, checker, dispatcher, bancl·
hnilclc>r, work0cl in the 'l'est Lab­or:
itory ancl \\'as 1·Prc nt ly trnns·
fNrecl into the Experimental Job
Rhop-has continuous scrvire-is
buying a home on t he Heights­h:
i s three rhilclren, a boy nnd two
girls, a 11 :it home- Ji kes forming
ancl motoring.
Born in Kit.tnnnii1g on the Wil·
liam Penn Highway, Penna., F rank
Grah a:m hnd been working here
1·011ing stock when the war broke
out-signed up with the J.46th In·
.fan try, 37th division, whic h
trained at Camp Sheridan, Ala.­spent
ten months overseas, got t he
Germnns all handled, came back
into the mill rnom-since that
bu ilding beads, curing bicycle tires
nncl now on the r efin ers- has two
hrothers h ere, Bill in Plant I Tfres,
.Tohn in Plant II Shipping, the
three having given Goodyear a
total of 68 years service-has one
daughter, ten-likes baseball and
gardening.
Coming up from Jackson, 0.,
when he was 18, sta1·t'ii1g in bui ld·
ing tires, Mont Jones has 11cvcr
worked anywhere else than Good­year-
had been in Mechanical
Goods the last two ~·e ar - buying
his 11ome on Madison avenu·e- his
hobby is the movies.
Another P ennsylvanian is P aul
P er sing; who worked in a lime·
stone qunrr,v a whil e, started here
treacling ti'1·cs, stnrted retreading
them two years ago- has a son a nd
four daughters, one of them with
Goodyear-hobby is ice skating.
Another West Virginian is Lis­ton
Mci ntyre, from the town of
Alvy- taught school there a rouple
of years then came to Gooclyear
building tires- was inspector and
supervis01· for many years-now
tending team- manicd, two
youngsters, boys-i: a gr ea t
1·ea der; partirulnrly books on sci·
c nee-also likes to work in 11is
gnrclen.
The fifth Silent Goodyearite to
rcarh the 25-year mark is George
Homrigshausen, who used to cap·
tain the old Mute ]cootball team
when he Jh-st came here- born at
New Pl1iladelphia he worked as a
pai11 ter and box maker for a few
yem·s, started here ns a tire fin·
i shei·, went on a mixing mill in
J 928 an cl for the last ten years has
been a conveyor man-owns his
l1ome on the Heights- has a 13·
year old daughter, still likes all
kinds of spo1'ts.
TJJE WINGFOOT CLAN.-PAGE 3
CLi\N
AKRON EDITION
Establ1ahe4 June 1, 191Z
I ssued Weekly in the Interest of all Goodyearites.
Offi1·e Goo cl~·e Rr - a\·e . Gat hou se
(' TJWULATION
P l1 one Goodyen r 675
17,500
AKROX, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3J, l!NO
TAXES AND EMPLOYMENT
A striking· analysis of the effect of taxes on employment
in America is contained in a thou ghtful statement made by
,\[r. Litchfield recently at the annual meeting.
It must be obvious, he said, that these mounting tax bills
111ust be paid by the individuals who own our stock, the
individuals " ·ho work for the company and the indiYicluals
11·ho purchase our products.
The tax load per employee in 1939 amounted to $472 as
;1gainst $1.11 in 1929; per share of common stock, the t ax
hill nmonnted to $6.61 in ]939 ns compared " ·ith $2.53 in
1929. The domestic prices at " ·bich " ·e sell nur ntrious
procl ncts 1Yere considerably lower in 1939 than in 1929 due
to 1011·ei· prices of cotton and rubber and to the improvement
in our skill as mam1facturers and the quality of tho. e prod­ucts
had been gTea tly improved. But a 1929 tax level would
have enabled us to offer even better prices to our customers,
better wag·es to our employees and better dividends to our
shareholders. The lion's share of the fruits of our efforts
to manufacture more Pronorn ically has been t aken h~r the
tax collector. The ill nstratiom; I have just ginn of Goocl­year
's situation nrc quite typica l of wlrnt is happening to
.American industry as a whol e.
For almost a fu ll decade, govcrllm enta l drA ri ts lrn\·e been
growing to enormous fignn>.. Pri\·ate initiati\·e is being
<:rushed under the weight of taxes and the total un employ­ment
figure r emnins in t he neigh horhoocl of nine million.
Xo matter " ·hat one's politica l beliefs may be, the conclusion
is in e:capn ble that we are on the wrong course. I think the
benefits of technological development passed along by in­dustry
to stockholders, employees and consumers would
accomplish more for the common good than the prevailing
policy under which such created wealth is taken and dis­tributed
by government.
Here's 100 Years of Goodyear Service
G. M. H artline I. E . Sprankle Herbert A. Cady
Here is a f ull century of ser vice
for Goodye11r, Hartline, 35, Cady,
35, Sprnnkle, 30.
The coincidence of three men
reaching these annive rsari e s
moved J11ke Ritter to call a little
group in, to c011gratulate t hem.
Ro meone got out a pencil, figured
the ] 1 men averaged 32 years serv­ice
for there " ·e1·e Hank Gillen, 39,
.John Bry, 37, Eil Yiers, 40, Carl
Johnson, 30, Bill Orr, 37, Joe Wi­ley,
24, Al Philips, 29, Ritter, 29,
which with the three guests totaled
355 yean. If one man had put in
that much service he'd h ad to hire
in in 15 5, which was about 20
~·ears b efore the first white settle­ment
was made in America, or
about the time Pocahontas was
born.
Mr. Litchfi eld was still doing
pnrt of the hi r.i ng when Herb Cady
rame he re, but :Ell Kok en nttual ly
sig ned him up. 'l'liere was just
0110 mold to curn solid tires then.
JJm·b went into the pit, is still in
tl'Lick tires ancl going strong.
Jlfi lt llartline goes back still
f:uthe r, to J 98, the y ar the com·
pany star ted, but he left for a
while. Remembers when a tall
young folio"· came in wearing a
straw hat antl. they 11id that was
Litchnelcl, the new su1 erintendent.
"Looks like a kid,'' everybocly
said.
Milt can remember when a sin·
gle express wagon was big enough
to haul t lie day's production down
to the depot. lfas seven sons, t:1·0
with Gooclyea1" a broth er, Bill,
with 25 years service and a
nephew, Chi , with almost tliat
mni1y.
SLUSSER TALKS TO GIRLS
Vice President Cliff Slusser
will be guest of honor at the
15th annual dinner of the Wing­foot
Girls Club Tuesday night
at 7 p. m. at K aase 's. One of
the strong organizations around
the pla.nt, the girls are planning
to make this an outst anding
meeting.
Went to Sea
(Cont ludcd from Pngc 1)
After three years :i t sea, in sai l·
i ng ships whi r·h trnll<'cl between
rn1·ious po rts in t he B1·iti h I sles
and F ran re, J ohn Hosk ins hau a
chanc-c to go into th e Bl'itish Navy,
b ut he dec ided to <'0 111e to America
in. teacl, 1:111d d here a boy of 15,
11ot knowing anyo ne. His passage
cost him $30. He
set out fo r P e nn·
sylnLnia, worked
on fo rms t here
a while t h e n
w e n t in to t h e
woorl. in logging
wo l'lc
T\vti nt.v yen.rs
ng·o lie lost his
wife, :·mcl as lie
had a ma rried
dau ghte r in
John Martin Akron hy then
a nd a flock of
~ lrildr e n , the yo un gest t hree ~·ea r s
ohl, he came on here, bought the
place in E llct , came to work at
(}oodyear.
Ile had 13 ehildl'Cn ori ginally.
One son, Robe rt, is a superv isor in
the ca lende1· 1·oom, a nothrr lil"Ps
i 11 Detroit. He has daughters in
l~ lm i rn, N . Y., in Pen nsylvania,
in Michiga n, ancl one in Akron .
'l' hci·e '11'6 two great o-rn ndchil­cl
1·en.
J .. hn Mnrti u was born in the
g rcnt i11cl11 strial <' ity of Manches­t
e r. He s hll't erl in us an errand
hn.v in a g lass wo rk s, spent two
years nt th at, t en years in a ship­ping
warehouse, ten 1nor l in a tea
wa r ehouse, fi ve years in t l1e city
highway cl ep'1rt111 ent, fivo more in
bu siness fo r himse lf, then set out
for Ame1•ira, to spend 35 more
years with Gooclyc::ir.
His son , Robe rt, was working in
Akron as a pattern mnke r. Eel
Nall , late master merha ni c, was n
cousin of liis wife, so he cnme to
Goodyear, st a r ting in t he black­'
m ith shop, t hen in the machine
shop sto re room. One granddaugh­t
er, E dith , is in t he nling depart­ment.
Build Choristers
(Concluded from P age 1)
~Ir s . Dorothy LaRue will be ac­companist,
with Mrs. A. A. Berry
as assistant accompa nist. Rehear ­.
a ls will be helcl weekly, every
'l'u e,clay night at t he Hall.
Rheet music for the fi rst two
1111 111 hers has heen orde red, t he
old favorite'' Sextet from Lucia,''
arranged for four parts, ancl the
'' hcrubim Song.'' Other 11um­l1
l' r• to lJc tak en up will inrlude
Victor Herbert music, ballads,
semi-c la ssical music, some church
1J1ll S iC.
The C'hori tors hope to build up
their organizatio11 this spring and
to stage th ir first big concert
enrll- in the fall. Charles Gilmore,
, 'ales Tabulating, who had experi­pnr
·e in this neld at Baldwin­Wf!
llflre college is wo1·king on busi-
11ess m1cl i1romotion details. ·wm.
N'irholas is prnsident o~ t he club.
All forme r membel'S1 all those
ll'ho lrnYe had experi ence in choral
work, eYcryone who woulcl like
serious]~' to get into it, are wel­come
at the first reheaTSal Mon­day.
The club is open to nll Good­yeai
·i.tes nucl member. of their
f11milics.
Tales of The Clan
EDWARD S. Conner has crowded (AND t hey say that one time
* * ·* * *
A LOT of l iving
* * *
INTO his 3 yea rs
*
ROAMED the Maine woods
SAILED tl1e M:1i11e 11·ators
*
(THERE 'S a f:i 111 ous story
* * *
(ABOUT his rowing nn open boat
* * *
(ALL the wny from ova Scotia
* * *
(SOME 500 miles
(SOMEBODY ca11 ght a carp
* * *
(OUT in Wi ngfoot Lake
* * *
(AND everyone was mad
* * * (TALKED about sabotage
* * *
(FIGURED someone h ad put it
th e re
* * *
(BUT th e Chief 1 oked it over
* * *
(THAT fi sh he snys
* * * * * * (IS 20 years olcl
(THROUGH a nor 'caste r gale * * *
* * * (IT 'S a n at ive of Wingfoot)
(WHICH froze everyo ne's ha nds) * * *
* * *
AND aft er th at t hrough college
ANYHOW he knows his sports
* * *
* * *
BECAME a famo us athlete
BUT t he most important thing
* * *
* *
DIRECTED rec reation next
HE has clone a t Gooclyear
* * *
* HAS been tha t he taught people
AT Camp Shermnn rl uring the war * * *
* * * THROUGH liis own enth usiasm
STILL he was just J9 * *
* * * TO Jo1·c the 011trl oo rs
WHEN h r nme to Goodyear
* * *
AND in t he 1 fl years since
* . * *
HE'S been mo rn t-lrn n a coarh
* * ·•
HE'S bee 11 the prime exponent
* * *
OF Yig·o1·ous outdoor li fe
* * *
OF r lef!n living
.. * *
OF s rortsmn nship
* * * HE know his stuff
*
(F 'RINSTANCE the other clay
* *
(HE picked up a baseb all bat
* * *
(TOLD us how old the tree was
* *
(THAT it ra me from
*
(DESCRIBED vividl.v one yem·
* * *
(AND he named t he year
* *
(WHEN clronth and rold
* * *
(STUNTED all g-rowing t hings
* * *
(HE r ead a ll those things
* * *
(IN the markings in the wood
Bill Wilson To
Stay At Helm
With but one exception the
Gooclvear 25 Year Club has r e­C'l
ectod its entire slate of officers
fo r a t hird term.
\V. B. "Billy" ·wilson was r e-
]c,·tc rl president; Carrie Shirer,
trcn~ 11 r o r: and 'r. A. Johnson, sec­rctn
1·y. C. N. Ritter ie vice presi­dent.
'rhe r lub has n 11 active member­Rhi
p of 815 p ersons in Akron.
Akron employees number 780
while 35 are on pen sion. Inactive
membership, rmployees in the ncld,
nnmbcrs 169 per son s.
Potomac Trip
(Concluded from Page 1)
Jon Pnrish Church, college of Willinm
1111d 1\fary and hermtiful gardens.
Jn mest.own, F<iit.C Of first permanent
English settlement in A mcrirn-l 607.
Ticre Cnp1ain John . 'm i th wu s elected
pr e~i cl e nt of the colony in 1608.
Yorktown, where Co1nwn lli s sur·
rendered to " 'ashington in 1781; trip
o,·er 11n1,1lefi eld s.
0111 Point Comfort (Fortl'ess ilfon ­roc)
where }Jfl l' ty may r est on s pacious
\'Brnndns of the Ch umborlnin Hote l.
'rh c ro arc rnnny oth er pinces to be
,- i ~ite d-n ll ric·h in romnncc nncl fns·
ci n nting legends or the leaders in
J\m c ri<~n. n hi s tory.
After n. glorious clay in Virginia the
Ooodyenrites will honr<l tho steamer
nl Old Point Comfort for the return
trip 1-0 'Va.shington.
There's much to see in the cnpi tnl­Zoological
Onrdnn s, public buildings,
embn10;si es, legations, Arlington Come·
to r )'. Tomb of tho Unknown olclier,
l~oJ,ort E. J,oe ilfnnsion. Chl'ist Church
in Alc:-:nndria, where 'Vn i:i.hington n.nd
T,eo worshipped: Jilt. Vernon, fully
fm·ni shed nnrl containing many l"elics
nnd mementoes. And nearby is the
tomb of 'Vnshington and his wi(e.
* * *
HE'S been an jnspirn tion
* * *
FOR wholesome li ving
* * *
AND so on his 38th birthday
* * *
THEY gave him a party
* * *
AND someo ne saicl
* * *
WHAT ever we do
* * *
LET 'S get him a new shotgun
* * *
HE'S Joa necl that one of his out
*
TO nlm ost everybody in Goodyear
* * *
EXCEPT P. W. T,ifr hfi eld by now
* * *
HE'S worn it out
* * JUST lending it
* * *
AND so on behalf of thousands
* *
WHO kn ow and love him
* * *
HERE'S good health, Chief
* * *
FOR t he next 38 yea1·s
* * * GOD BLESS YOU
Frank Brownsword
Goes On Pension
Her e 's another Englishman who
can forget about the alarm clock.
Frank Brownsword, for 34 years
foreman of the
nird gang, one of
seven well known
brothers wh o
liave worked for
t h e co mp a ny.
Frank went on
t he pension list
last week.
Ernie, of the
P o w e r Ilouse,
'l'crl and Harry
Frank Brownsword are
Brownsword still here, Tom
went on the pen­sion
r oll a while back, Arthur and
Walter have died. Frank, 70, wont
to work at 14, has never been ou t
of work in the 56 years sin ce.
A motor boat and nshing en­thusiast,
he will still spend his
summers at l1is cottage on East
Reservoir. Winters he lives in
town with a marriecl daughter.
The 20-Yea.r Club will hold a
Pot Luck supper May 4. Every
Goodyear employe with 20 years '
ervi ce is invited to come and
bring their families.
The Euc)lre Club had nine tables
at its meeting last week, N.-S.
beating E.-W.
Colored Club bridge session
every Thursday evening.
FIRST PRACTICE
GAME SCHEDULED
WITH KENT STATE
Former Goodyear Stars
Form Nucleus of Team
But Newcomers are
Promising
First practice game of the
yrar for Goodyear's newly re­organized
baseball team has
been scheduled for Friday
afternoon at 4 :30 at Seiber­ling
Field ao·ainst Kent State.
Plans for the League are
going forward and it is hoped
to open the season here May 5.
Inclement weather has pre­vented
Coach Detrick from get­ting
much of a line on the capacity
of the various players reporting,
but he 'II start with what there is
and go from there.
While former Goodyear players
will be used at the outset, Detrick
expects plenty of competition at
each position and the newcomers
may well bump off some of the old
stars before the season is well
a long.
For his tentative starting line·
up he's thin king of Swope for first
base, Rife or Bloedorn for second,
Rush or McNenny for short, Ike
Harwell at third, McBride in left
field , Porosky in center, Tankers·
le.'· in right. Thomas, VanLading­ham
and Hess will work out b e·
hind the plate, while for pitchers
he 'II look over Joe Horan, Johnny
Burdick, Lefty Bement, Joe Sho·
mock, Nick Frascella and Carter.
McNenny played with Georgia
Tech two y e a r s ago. Floyd
Ebaugh, the basketball star is a
first baseman, Ben Rusinski is well
spoken of as a pitcher, Red Isaacs
as au infielder, and still others
may have something of value to
contribute to the team.
Vacation Picture
Contest Starts
With Yacations starting before
long the Wingfoot Clan will re­sume
its popular photo contest,
"Fun Out of Doors."
Merchandise prizes will be given
eaeh issue, aud a grand prize at
the end of the season. Remember
the rules:
(1) While vacation pictures will
be featured, any amateur shots of
Goodyear people enjoying them·
selves out doors, fishing, swim·
ming, playing golf, working at
their hobbies, will also be eligible
for prizes.
(2) We 're much .more interested
in people than in scenery. While
interesting backgrounds help, get
close-ups so we can see what peo·
pie look like.
(3) Send a note along t elling
who the people are, where the pie·
ture was taken and your own name
and clock card number or depart­ment.
ART HORROCKS TALKS
Goodyear F oremen's Club and
the Supervi ioual Training Group
will sponsor a meeting in the thea­ter
at 3 p. m. on May 8, with Art
Horrocks as the speaker.
As president of the National
Association of Foremen's Clubs,
Art has spoken widely over the
country this past year, spending
much of his time on the road,
studying economic conditions.
FOR RENT
Olean quiet room in adult home. 28
Maxine-pl ., off 829 E Market. HE-9483.
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Boy Of Twelve
Bowling Phenom
Clifford Raasch
Margaret Raasch's kid nep hew,
Clifford, 12, sat arou nd at Good·
year alleys the oth er night wat ch­ing
Margaret and the other girls
in the Thursday Night League
perform.
''Like to roll one, Clifff' ' Mar·
garet asked when they finished.
The boy nodded. They got a 10·
pound ball for him. That is easier
for a little fellow to handle but it
is a lso harder to make strikes and
spares with.
''Ever do a ny bowling ~ '' asked
Grace Kran tz. ''Perhaps we can
show you how to hold it.''
"Thanks,' ' said the boy. "I've
been watching. I think I know
how.''
He took a couple of steps down
the alley, sent t he ball squarely
down the center. He bowled as
if he had been doing it for years:
He shot au 84 the first game, and
if you 're not a bowler, it may be
said that that is an excellent score
for a first attempt. Not one ball
went into the gutter. H e man·
aged one very difficult split, hit·
ting t he pin at just the angle to
send it crashing across to pick off
the other one.
He rolled a 120 the second game.
''I think I'd like this game,
once I caught on to it,'' said
Clifford, dusting off his hands.
His aun t is in Merchandise Dis­tribution.
Gus Raasch, Mechani·
cal Goods, who got his 25·year pin
re ·ently, is hi uncle.
Friday Bowlers
To Get Trophies
Tom Clayton, Ray Detrick and
Freel Colley will present trophies
at the annual banquet of the Fri­day
Night Girls' Bowling league
tomorrow night at Gruhler's Rom­anv
Restaurant.
i 'he post season tournament was
won by Agnes Evans ' Emeralds,
with 2165, Mae Williams' Mara­thons
second with 2038, Christina
Pettigrew's Hi Milers, third, 2006,
and Gwen Edwards' Airfoam team
fourth with 2003.
In the regular seaso n, the Mara·
thous who had set the pace all
year held their league lead, roll­ing
a one game scoro of 867, the
year's high est, to ci nch the title.
Besides Capt. Williams the team
includes Anna Shafer, Mabel Van­dever,
Lucille Laughlin and Bessie
The Emeralds who have taken
the title in two previous years
took second place. Agues Evans,
Agnes Gerend. Freda Winfrey,
Ada Friend and Henrietta Hughes
compose the team.
HORSESHOE LEAGUE
A horseshoe league is being or­ganized
with teams from the four
rubber companies, Ohio Edison'
and th e city firem en. Home and
home games will be scheduled,
Goodyear's linger working out
at Seiberling Field.
Bowling
BOBO WINS TOURNEY
I GEORGE SISLER TO
:....__ __ BE HONORED AT Head Pin Winner
Wilbur Bobo wins t he head pin
tournament, breaking a 116 tie
with Jack Harb to clo it, while
Leon Coyer a ncl Pauline Cramer,
Bicycle Tires, won the mixed
championship with 1338.
Kilgo re, C. Weaver and Hollish
tied fo r second amo ng tho men
" ·ith 115, D. Isner and Cnrillon hit
114 C. Thompson, K . Bailey, K.
Broll'n, Fisher and Condlery got
ll ~. Wisberger, Forsyth, Salzer
nncl D. H. Hassler got 112, Don
Hassler, Kronenth al, Cable, R.
Whittaker, Tomasci n , Swindler
and Brocies got lll, Persing, Sims,
C. Wright and L. Whittaker got
11 0.
Run nr rs-up in t he mixed doubles
were George 'rhompson and Pearl
Ca rper with 1337, Wright and
F,J111a Knapp, t hi rcl, 1322. Weaver
shot the high two-game score, 226
and the high four-game, 445.
GIRLS TO BOWL
FirRf· matrh gnmes of t he season
fo r girls wi ll be played Friday
night when a picked t eam, cap·
tainecl by Blanche Davis meets
Kaase 's na k e1· ~' , a nd a second
team, captained by Edna Resh
plays Hall's Restaurant. The
K aase team with a season average
of 770 will meet Goodyear girls
who average 775. 'rhe Hall t eam,
n veragi ng 740, will roll against
girls ave ragi ng 727.
Other membe rs of the first team
will be L aura McMaster, Maude
Snyder, Helen Davis and Pearl
Carper, the second t eam Ann Sim·
mons, F lossie Anson, Helen Her­man
and Vivian Eggleston.
DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE
Specifications nosed out Chemi­cal
Engineers to win the last round
of the Development league and
were to stage a t hree-game play­off
with Pliofilm last night. Plio­film
won the first and third rounds,
Specifications taking the second
and fourth.
Singles championship was won
by P aul Dock with 2660, Jack
Si11gle being runner-up. The dou­b
les championship will be played
tomorrow night, with entries open
till noon.
Welch's Tavern will be the
scene of the annual banquet on
May ll.
Fi nnl seores:
Team W.
Specifi cations ...... 14
Ohern. Eng. . ....... 13
Wolfe's Torreys .. 12
Pliofi lm .... ............ 12
Tire Design ........ 12
LifeGuards .......... 9
Plaster Shop ........ 6
Drafting Room .... 6
L.
7
8
9
9
9
12
15
15
Pct
.667
.6 19
.571
.571
.571
.429
.286
.286
Avg.
708
75 ~
634
782
701
701
718
654
ENGINEERING BOWLING LEAGUE
Team W. L . Avg.
Mach. Shop .... .... .... 65 25 852
Airfoam No. 1 ........ 59 31 840
Zepp Plant .............. 56 34 837
Rim Plant ... .... ......... 54 86 827
He Mn.n .............. .... 53 37 826
Rheet Metal .......... 48 42 809
Plant 2 Eng ............. 46 44 809
Research .................. 45 45 821
Steel Prods ............. 40 50 808
Silents .... .................. 28 62 784
Apprenti ce ...... ........ 28 62 788
Airfoam No. 2 ........ 20 70 754
Agnes Gerend
F riclay n ight girls are mighty
proud of Agnes Gerend, V-bclts,
who finish ed first in t he city-wide
head pin tou rn :1111cnt. Rolling 18·i
in the first round , Agnes slipped
to a 147, but cnmc bark strong with
a 184 to win first pla re. She and
Agnes Evans a !so fin i ·heel well up
in the doubles, as did Ada Friend
anu Fri eda \Vi II fre ,·.
Blancl1e Da,·is ":as tliird in the
singles, with Ruby Harrigan, Al­thea
·woJfe and Agnes Eqrn,; we ll
up. Agnes has been bo,1·Jing three
years.
Plant II Player
Leads Singles
'With the Varsitv t eam barred
from competitio n, J)adminton nov­ices
and semi-sk illed p I ayers
staged t heir first tourn:iment last
week, with Cha rles White, Prod·
uct Repairs, Plant II, winning the
men's si ngles and Daly Novy, Pay·
roll winning the novice title.
Eleanor Knopf, who ·e husband
E rwin is in the Hose room, won
both titles mnong the women,
though hard pressed by Helen
Kus.v, wife of Joe Kus~·, Trucking.
In the ~ o rthea st Ohio league,
tl1e Regula rs lost out to Youngs­town,
Goodyear's aces, Shirley Fr.v
and C. C. Crittendon being turned
back, only Bolton, Neikirk and
Pead Carper winning their singles
matches ancl eikirk and Shirley
Fry iu the doubles.
GOODYEARITES IN HOSPITALS
City Hospital : W. Harold Lantz, Oure·
Tires; Norman " ' hitley, Tubes; Harry
Koteskey, Mill Room ; Andrew Nock en·
g ust, J a nitors; John ! span, Rubber
Valves: George Saxe, Product Repairs ;
Isaac Patton, Janitors; James Larew,
Oement House; Oharles E. Sigler, Oar·
penters ; Blanche Swain, Wrapped
Hose; Robert Eddy, Curing Tires; An·
ton Dolpen. Machine Shop; James Bur­k
ett, Mill Room; John Hough, Ad ver ·
tisi ng; Anna Drake, Accounts Payable.
Peoples Hospital : James Boyer, Tube
and Tires; E lmer Floyd, Treads; Harry
(>FFICE BOWLING LEAGUE .Hammaker , Truck Tires ; Dolores Mc·
Team W. L . Pct. Avg. Oain . Molded Goods: Bert Rader,
Materinls .............. 63 84 .609 853 Prodnct Repairs; Alice Scott, Sales
F.mnloyees Store .... 52 85 .698 880 TabulaLing.
Mech. Goods Dev. 50 37 .575 886 St. Thomas Hospital: Christian Ca-
Machine Design .. .. 50 37 .575 8411 prez. Machine Shop; James McGu ire,
Real Estate ........ 49 38 .563 885 Steam Generation; llfarie Finney, Air-
Pliofi lm ... ... ......... 48 8!! .552 8!;1 foam .
Foremen's Olub .... 43 44 .494 854
Drafting .......... .... 41 46 .471 873
Equipment Eng ..... 87 50 .425 784
Fabric Test ........ 34 53 .891 831
Accounting .......... 34 63 .391 784
G. 0. Printer s .... 81 56 .856 766
The lengne will bold it Annual Ban·
quet Monday night at Young's.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB
New member-a are invited to, join
the brirlge sesRions whir.h are held
every Wednesday evening on the
2nd floor, Goodyear Hall.
Goodyea.r Ping Pong team was
to play Firestone last night at
Goodyear Hall.
DEATHS
Nora J. Fishel. 53. V-Belts. had 22
yen rs service; lived on Sackett st.,
Ouyahogn Falls. Leaves two sons.
Lelah llf. Shaw, 4 2. Tube Room,
leaves n son and daughter.
Spen cer S. Marshall, 51, Janitor
Service, had 18 years se rvice, leaves a
wife.
John H . Oombs, 82. had been on pen·
sion roll si nce 1930, leaves o. wife,
daughter nnd Lwo sons.
BOWL FIRESTONE AGAIN
Good~· ear 's bowling team which
defeated FiMstone last week, will
give them a chance to get even
tomorrow night.
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Famous Akron Baseball
Player to Speak at All­Sports
Meeting at Hall
George Sisler, Akron's
greatest baseball player,
whose ability placed him in
baseball's "Hall of Fame " at
Cooperstown, N. Y., will r e­turn
home Tuesday for the
first time in more than a dec­ade
to be one of the featured
speakers at Akron's fourth
annual Sports Roundup at
Goodyear theater.
Other n ationally known athletic
figures to appear as speakers a re
Charles R. "Chick" Davies, Du·
quesne university b as ket b a 11
coach; P aul Brown, Massillon foot·
ball coach; and Sherlock Evans,
Massillon City Solicitor, master of
ceremonies.
Sisler will be introduced by Joe.
'rhomas, Jr., president of newly
Ol'ganized Akron Baseball F edera­tion.
As president of t he Ameri­can
Softball Association, Sisler
will be well qualified to talk on
either phase of the diamond sport.
Davies, who ranks as one of the
nation's greatest cage coaches,
will discuss different styles of
basketball and engage in a round
table discussion with Tommv Dow­ler,
Ak ron U coach, Paul Birch, his
nssistant at Duquesne and Akron's
radio sports anno uncers Bob Wil­son
and Bill Gri fliths .
Other proirrnm speakers will be
.Tim Schl emme r, Beacon J ournal
Sports editor, who will a lso inter·
\"i.Pw Brown after he has finished
te lling why his high school teams
nre outstanding; "Chief" Conner,
Ray Detrick and Cl.vde Munroe,
presid ent of the Akron coaches
association.
The entire program will be
limited to one hour and 45 minutes.
It will inr lude the honoring of .
Akron's championship teams and
individual ath letes of the past
year numbering more than 300
from 22 diffe rent sports.
Evans is considered one of the
best masters of ceremonies in this
part of the country. His peculiar
style keeps his audiences gasping
every minute he has the rostrum.
''Chief '' Conner announces that
t ickets for the Roundup are now
available at the Recreation depart­ment
office in Goodyear Hall. Ad·
mission is free to the public but
by ticket only.
RUNS FILLING STATION
E. C. Derrick, formerly of the
Police Dept., has taken over a
filling station at 625 Massillon rd.,
near the Airport Administration
Bldg. Fred Carper, son of Jake,
of Crude Rubber, has gone in with
him. They'll be glad to see their
Goodyear friends.
MATERIALS MEN BANQUET
Sea~o n -e nd banquet of the Ma·
terials Bowling league will be held
at Adam's Inn, Loyal Oak, Friday
night according to announcement
by E lmer Hagood, league secre­tary.
The circuit wound up its regular
season last week with 221-M de·
frat ing 121-C two games to one
fo1· the sensou championship.
Charles M. Weaver, Miscellane­ous
Stores, won a bowling trophy
last week for the best showing in
two men's ev nts, the Beacon
Journal classic and the head pin
tournament.

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AKRON EDITION
PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
Vol. 29 AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 No. 9
MORE LIBERAL
VACATION PLAN
IS ANNOUNCED
Vacations Granted In
Factory After Two Years
Service, with Two Weeks
After Five
Practically everybody in
l ~oodyear will go on vacation
thi · year.
Liberalization of the vaca­tion
plan to give one week's
yacation to everyone on piece
mwk or hourly rating who
ha had two years continuous
sen ·ice up to Jan . 1, 1940,
and two weeks to those hav­ing
five years continuous service
by then was announced by the
tompany last week.
The previous r ule dating back
almost a qua rte r of a century to
l 916 when ,Goodyear rather star·
tied t he country by extending
vaca tions to factory men, r equired
five years continuous service to
qualify for one wee k 's vacation
and ten yea rs to earn two weeks.
Under the new plan more than
flOOO houri.'· employees will get
rn ca tions t his ,·ear and all but 350
of those will ge t two weeks.
The new program will be spe·
(' ial lv welcome to those me11 who
we re laid off during the depres·
sion and h an~ been back now long
enough to qu alify for vacations
unrlcr t his new plan.
'l'he Girls Travel Club is spon·
so ri ng the pla.v "Robin Hood"
!?inn b y t he ·w eathervane Thea·
ter playe rs next Tuesday night.
Newport News and Wash­ington
Awalt Arrival of
Goodyear Visitors
Reservations are being made at
a gratifying rate at Employees
Activities headquarte rs for the
Goodyear excurs ion to the national
capital and Colonial Virginia. In·
dications point to a large delega·
tion boarding t he B. & 0 . speci al
tmin at 6::?0 o'clock Friday morn·
ing, May 17, according to Fred
Colle.v, who is l1eadi ng the excur·
sio n.
This trip has been designed at
very low cost, total expense only
$32.55 per pe rson. Th is includes
round trip railroad fare , steamship
round trip Washington to Norfolk,
Va., stateroom on b oa t for two
nigh t s, al 1 mea Is, sight-seeing buses
and transfers. Remember, the
$32.55 includes a ll meals from the
time the train leaves Ma.v 17 up to
the time the train pulls into Akron
on the morning of May 20.
Spar·e doesn't permit listing all
that the excursionists will see, but
he re a re sorne of the importa nt
points:
Pi cturesq ue section follow iniz- Po·
tomac river valley to H a r per's Ferr.\·,
scene of the famous Jol111 Brown r ui:1tc1·s, co ni c>'
from Rn 1·p11S\\' OOLl, \V. Vn., w:is :1
rni lroall fircm:111 :rncl wor1'ed in
a planing mill before •· onri ng l1 e re
- his Eervice has been C'nt i1·e ll· in
the pit- owns his hon1e-n ~l'irl ·
ower with 011e son, his hobby is
111otoring.
Waitman Deem, nlso in Hea ters
-nlso from W'est Virginia (Park­ersburg)-
wor11ed in the steel
mills in his home town- hi s en tire
se n ·ice in the same clepn1·trn ent
l1 m·c- own. his own home-has n
claughtcr who is graduating from
East High in June, also a boy of
15- likes to w01·k in th gn rcl en,
outside tl1e hunting season.
Howard Beabout, tuhe room,
r:ime up from East Live1·pool1
:tnited in the tube room at 19,
has ha cl nll his Sn.
George Wonn, lencl press opern-
1 or i11 the ll o~e Ronlll, Mechanical
Goods, is 0110 of the fi rnt '.!5 -,,·cn r
men in some 1 i111c to have been
born in Akron- he work eel for
Goodl'irh seYcn years, two for the
East Ohio Gas Co.-rnme to Goocl­~
·e m· r tning heels- moved to the
hose r oom three ye:ns l:i te1·- aeted
as shift forrmm1 for SP \·ernl Years
- has three boYs nll marr.iecl ­owns
his o\\·n home- likes base·
.ball nlHl fishing, also moto1·ing,
drove 1'ln011gh l\{nine :i ncl New
lfnmpsh i1·c lnst :rem·.
8tcn rn tcnrlcr in the tn1rk tire
pit, George Lammlein is a Ken·
tnekinn, horn at LouisYill o- spent
t·C'n ~·car s h h\·ccn rni ll'O:Hling :incl
nr but
was l:ri•l off two ''r, work0cl in the 'l'est Lab­or:
itory ancl \\'as 1·Prc nt ly trnns·
fNrecl into the Experimental Job
Rhop-has continuous scrvire-is
buying a home on t he Heights­h:
i s three rhilclren, a boy nnd two
girls, a 11 :it home- Ji kes forming
ancl motoring.
Born in Kit.tnnnii1g on the Wil·
liam Penn Highway, Penna., F rank
Grah a:m hnd been working here
1·011ing stock when the war broke
out-signed up with the J.46th In·
.fan try, 37th division, whic h
trained at Camp Sheridan, Ala.­spent
ten months overseas, got t he
Germnns all handled, came back
into the mill rnom-since that
bu ilding beads, curing bicycle tires
nncl now on the r efin ers- has two
hrothers h ere, Bill in Plant I Tfres,
.Tohn in Plant II Shipping, the
three having given Goodyear a
total of 68 years service-has one
daughter, ten-likes baseball and
gardening.
Coming up from Jackson, 0.,
when he was 18, sta1·t'ii1g in bui ld·
ing tires, Mont Jones has 11cvcr
worked anywhere else than Good­year-
had been in Mechanical
Goods the last two ~·e ar - buying
his 11ome on Madison avenu·e- his
hobby is the movies.
Another P ennsylvanian is P aul
P er sing; who worked in a lime·
stone qunrr,v a whil e, started here
treacling ti'1·cs, stnrted retreading
them two years ago- has a son a nd
four daughters, one of them with
Goodyear-hobby is ice skating.
Another West Virginian is Lis­ton
Mci ntyre, from the town of
Alvy- taught school there a rouple
of years then came to Gooclyear
building tires- was inspector and
supervis01· for many years-now
tending team- manicd, two
youngsters, boys-i: a gr ea t
1·ea der; partirulnrly books on sci·
c nee-also likes to work in 11is
gnrclen.
The fifth Silent Goodyearite to
rcarh the 25-year mark is George
Homrigshausen, who used to cap·
tain the old Mute ]cootball team
when he Jh-st came here- born at
New Pl1iladelphia he worked as a
pai11 ter and box maker for a few
yem·s, started here ns a tire fin·
i shei·, went on a mixing mill in
J 928 an cl for the last ten years has
been a conveyor man-owns his
l1ome on the Heights- has a 13·
year old daughter, still likes all
kinds of spo1'ts.
TJJE WINGFOOT CLAN.-PAGE 3
CLi\N
AKRON EDITION
Establ1ahe4 June 1, 191Z
I ssued Weekly in the Interest of all Goodyearites.
Offi1·e Goo cl~·e Rr - a\·e . Gat hou se
(' TJWULATION
P l1 one Goodyen r 675
17,500
AKROX, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3J, l!NO
TAXES AND EMPLOYMENT
A striking· analysis of the effect of taxes on employment
in America is contained in a thou ghtful statement made by
,\[r. Litchfield recently at the annual meeting.
It must be obvious, he said, that these mounting tax bills
111ust be paid by the individuals who own our stock, the
individuals " ·ho work for the company and the indiYicluals
11·ho purchase our products.
The tax load per employee in 1939 amounted to $472 as
;1gainst $1.11 in 1929; per share of common stock, the t ax
hill nmonnted to $6.61 in ]939 ns compared " ·ith $2.53 in
1929. The domestic prices at " ·bich " ·e sell nur ntrious
procl ncts 1Yere considerably lower in 1939 than in 1929 due
to 1011·ei· prices of cotton and rubber and to the improvement
in our skill as mam1facturers and the quality of tho. e prod­ucts
had been gTea tly improved. But a 1929 tax level would
have enabled us to offer even better prices to our customers,
better wag·es to our employees and better dividends to our
shareholders. The lion's share of the fruits of our efforts
to manufacture more Pronorn ically has been t aken h~r the
tax collector. The ill nstratiom; I have just ginn of Goocl­year
's situation nrc quite typica l of wlrnt is happening to
.American industry as a whol e.
For almost a fu ll decade, govcrllm enta l drA ri ts lrn\·e been
growing to enormous fignn>.. Pri\·ate initiati\·e is being
FFICE BOWLING LEAGUE .Hammaker , Truck Tires ; Dolores Mc·
Team W. L . Pct. Avg. Oain . Molded Goods: Bert Rader,
Materinls .............. 63 84 .609 853 Prodnct Repairs; Alice Scott, Sales
F.mnloyees Store .... 52 85 .698 880 TabulaLing.
Mech. Goods Dev. 50 37 .575 886 St. Thomas Hospital: Christian Ca-
Machine Design .. .. 50 37 .575 8411 prez. Machine Shop; James McGu ire,
Real Estate ........ 49 38 .563 885 Steam Generation; llfarie Finney, Air-
Pliofi lm ... ... ......... 48 8!! .552 8!;1 foam .
Foremen's Olub .... 43 44 .494 854
Drafting .......... .... 41 46 .471 873
Equipment Eng ..... 87 50 .425 784
Fabric Test ........ 34 53 .891 831
Accounting .......... 34 63 .391 784
G. 0. Printer s .... 81 56 .856 766
The lengne will bold it Annual Ban·
quet Monday night at Young's.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB
New member-a are invited to, join
the brirlge sesRions whir.h are held
every Wednesday evening on the
2nd floor, Goodyear Hall.
Goodyea.r Ping Pong team was
to play Firestone last night at
Goodyear Hall.
DEATHS
Nora J. Fishel. 53. V-Belts. had 22
yen rs service; lived on Sackett st.,
Ouyahogn Falls. Leaves two sons.
Lelah llf. Shaw, 4 2. Tube Room,
leaves n son and daughter.
Spen cer S. Marshall, 51, Janitor
Service, had 18 years se rvice, leaves a
wife.
John H . Oombs, 82. had been on pen·
sion roll si nce 1930, leaves o. wife,
daughter nnd Lwo sons.
BOWL FIRESTONE AGAIN
Good~· ear 's bowling team which
defeated FiMstone last week, will
give them a chance to get even
tomorrow night.
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Famous Akron Baseball
Player to Speak at All­Sports
Meeting at Hall
George Sisler, Akron's
greatest baseball player,
whose ability placed him in
baseball's "Hall of Fame " at
Cooperstown, N. Y., will r e­turn
home Tuesday for the
first time in more than a dec­ade
to be one of the featured
speakers at Akron's fourth
annual Sports Roundup at
Goodyear theater.
Other n ationally known athletic
figures to appear as speakers a re
Charles R. "Chick" Davies, Du·
quesne university b as ket b a 11
coach; P aul Brown, Massillon foot·
ball coach; and Sherlock Evans,
Massillon City Solicitor, master of
ceremonies.
Sisler will be introduced by Joe.
'rhomas, Jr., president of newly
Ol'ganized Akron Baseball F edera­tion.
As president of t he Ameri­can
Softball Association, Sisler
will be well qualified to talk on
either phase of the diamond sport.
Davies, who ranks as one of the
nation's greatest cage coaches,
will discuss different styles of
basketball and engage in a round
table discussion with Tommv Dow­ler,
Ak ron U coach, Paul Birch, his
nssistant at Duquesne and Akron's
radio sports anno uncers Bob Wil­son
and Bill Gri fliths .
Other proirrnm speakers will be
.Tim Schl emme r, Beacon J ournal
Sports editor, who will a lso inter·
\"i.Pw Brown after he has finished
te lling why his high school teams
nre outstanding; "Chief" Conner,
Ray Detrick and Cl.vde Munroe,
presid ent of the Akron coaches
association.
The entire program will be
limited to one hour and 45 minutes.
It will inr lude the honoring of .
Akron's championship teams and
individual ath letes of the past
year numbering more than 300
from 22 diffe rent sports.
Evans is considered one of the
best masters of ceremonies in this
part of the country. His peculiar
style keeps his audiences gasping
every minute he has the rostrum.
''Chief '' Conner announces that
t ickets for the Roundup are now
available at the Recreation depart­ment
office in Goodyear Hall. Ad·
mission is free to the public but
by ticket only.
RUNS FILLING STATION
E. C. Derrick, formerly of the
Police Dept., has taken over a
filling station at 625 Massillon rd.,
near the Airport Administration
Bldg. Fred Carper, son of Jake,
of Crude Rubber, has gone in with
him. They'll be glad to see their
Goodyear friends.
MATERIALS MEN BANQUET
Sea~o n -e nd banquet of the Ma·
terials Bowling league will be held
at Adam's Inn, Loyal Oak, Friday
night according to announcement
by E lmer Hagood, league secre­tary.
The circuit wound up its regular
season last week with 221-M de·
frat ing 121-C two games to one
fo1· the sensou championship.
Charles M. Weaver, Miscellane­ous
Stores, won a bowling trophy
last week for the best showing in
two men's ev nts, the Beacon
Journal classic and the head pin
tournament.